Struggles facing women focus of actress’ forum

From NewsOK:

Actress Famke Janssen led an acting workshop Friday at the Oklahoma Memorial Union hours before she planned to discuss more serious topics, including human trafficking and women’s equality.

Janssen, best known for the X-Men action trilogy and the James Bond movie “Goldeneye,” is in Oklahoma to commemorate United Nations Day.

The Dutch-born actress was named a United Nations goodwill ambassador in February.

She looked forward to joining Jill Irvine, director of the OU women’s studies program, and Zach Messitte, OU vice provost for international programs, in raising awareness on U.N. goals for improving the plight of women around the world.

“Zach and Jill are better equipped talking about the subjects, but I hope to bring in bigger crowds,” Janssen said after posing for pictures and signing autographs following the acting workshop.

Janssen, Irvine and Messitte discussed women’s issues, including human trafficking, Friday night during a dinner at the university.

They plan to have a similar discussion at noon today at the Faculty House restaurant, 601 NE 14 St. in Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma ties
Though Janssen lives in New York, her boyfriend is from Oklahoma.

During this visit, Janssen said she will scout possible set locations for a movie she plans to direct sometime next year.

The movie’s working title is “Bringing Up Bobby,” but Janssen declined to reveal much about the film’s plot.

Crystal | October 28th, 2008 | Comment

Puppy Love / Gallery Updates

For those of you who haven’t seen the first episode of Puppy Love, you can watch it below. If for some reason you can’t view the embedded video, the link to the episode can be found here. I should hopefully be adding screencaps of this to the gallery soon.

I’ve been adding a bunch of stuff to the gallery, some to previous albums but here’s a list of the newest albums.

Events: 2008: 10-07 - “Puppy Love” Web Series Launch Party
Events: 2007: 10-21 - HIFF - Golden Star Fish Awards
Events: 2006: 07-13 - X-Men: The Last Stand - Japan Press Conference
Events: 2006: 12-19 - PETA “Be an Angel for Animals” - Press Conference
Events: 2004: 06-14 - Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story - LA Premiere
Events: 2004: 12-12 - Hollywood Life Awards
Photoshoot: Miranda Penn-Turin
Photoshoot: Jamie Kingham
Promos: GoldenEye
Promos: I Spy
Promos: X-Men: The Last Stand
Stills: Eulogy
Stills: GoldenEye
Stills: Hide And Seek
Stills: House On Haunted Hill
Stills: I Spy
Stills: Lord Of Illusions
Stills: Model By Day
Stills: Nip/Tuck
Stills: Taken
Stills: The Treatment
Stills: X-Men
Stills: X2: X-Men United
Stills: X-Men: The Last Stand

Crystal | October 28th, 2008 | Comment

“Puppy Love” starts October 6th + TRAILER

“Puppy Love” starts on October 6th at L Studio. It will run for 40 episodes, though I’m not sure how many Famke will actually be in. You can check out the trailer below.

Crystal | October 2nd, 2008 | Comment